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Re: [Spridgets] Clutch Fluid problem

To: <tequila.brad@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Clutch Fluid problem
From: "Chris King" <cbking@alum.rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:46:20 -0700
He did asy DOT4 in his original post....
 
My guess may be crappy rubber in repro parts.
 
-=Chris

Chris King
http://home.comcast.net/~kvcbk/ 

 <-----Original Message----->

                 From: Brad Fornal [tequila.brad@gmail.com]
Sent: 6/7/2010 1:14:27 PM
To: paulbaker53@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Clutch Fluid problem 

Are you using DOT 3? That could eat away at the innards of the units.
DOT 4 
is a MUST, and DOT 5 Silicone is an option. 

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Paul Baker <paulbaker53@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote: 

> Last year I fitted new brake and clutch master cylinders and a new
slave 
> cylinder on my sprite and used Castrol Response Super Dot 4 fluid in
both 
> clutch and braking systems . One year on the fluid in the Clutch m/c 
> turned 
> dark grey and very thick and slave and m/c rubbers failed. After a
month 
> with 
> new clutch master/slave cylinders the fluid is turning grey again. The
> fluid 
> in the brake m/c is fine. What's causing the fluid to change colour
and go 
> thick, are the rubber seals disintegrating or the fluid oxidising the 
> castings? And why the clutch system but not the brake system? 
> 
> Your thoughts 
> would be much appreciated. 
> 
> Paul 
> 
> 65 Sprite 
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